Alternating-current commutator machinery.



H. MEYER-DELIUS. ALIERnmG CURRENT COMM'UTATOB MACHINERY.

APPLIHTION FILED JUNE-I13. 1910.

1,157.948. Patented 0et.26,1915.

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HEINRICH MEYEB-DELI'US, OF BADEN, SWITZERLAND, ASSI G-NOB, BY KESNEASSIGN- MENTS, TO GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, A

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 26, 1915.

Application flIedJune 13, 1910. Serial No. 566,624.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Dr. HEINRICH MEYER- DELIUS, asubject of the German Emperor, andresiding at Baden, Switzerland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Relating to Alternating-Current Commutator Machinery, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to alternating current commutator machinery, and particularly to means for completely Compensating for the transformer electroinotive force in a shunt or separately excited machine, which may be either single phase or polyphase. In such machines, as is well known, one component of the electromotive force set up in the machine is due to.transformer action; that is, to the alternate introduction and removal of the. field flux. This electromotive force is 90 behind the flux in phase, and acts along the of the effects of this transformer action is to cause sparking at the commutator, since it sets up a potential in those windings of the armature which are at any instant circuited by the brushes. This potential, as is obvious, is directly proportional in magnitude to the flux and In order to compensate for this potential, it

will be clear that it is necessary to provide mean's for setting up in the short clrcuited windings a potential equal and opposite to that set up due to the transformer action.-

axis of the field. One

short frequency and is "in-- dependent of the speed of rotation.

One method of accomplishing this result is to provide interpolesacting along a plane' normal to the axis of the short circuited windings and of such a strength-as toproduce the correct compensating potential. In using such interpoles it will be clear that the potential set up thereby will be directly proportional to the flux of the interpoles and to the speed of rotation. Since the po-' tential' set up due to the transformer action varies with the main flux and the frequency,

and the potential set up by the interpoles speed of rotation, it'is clear that varies with the flux of the interpoles and the for any variation of eitherthe main flux, the frequency or the speed, that a variation of the flux of the interpole will be required in order to completely compensate for the transformerv action under all conditions. That is to say, if we can provide an arrangement wherein the flux of the interpole will vary directly with the main flux and the frequency and inversely with the speed of rotation, we will have a complete compensation for the potential set up in the short circuited windings due to the transformer action. Since the flux set up by the interpole is directly proportional to the current producing it, we can say that for complete compensation this current i must be proportional to where f is the main flux, and n is the speed of rotation.

The object of my invention is to provide an arrangement for procuring this result in a shunt wound commutator machine'of any number of phases.

Let us now consider a'commutator machine having itsshunt field winding excited from the secondary terminals of a transformer.

transformer 'i, e, e,,.

where 11,, i, and e e, are thecurrent and potential, respectively, of the primary and secondary. Since this equation holds true for both an auto transformer and a two 'coil transformer, it-is immaterial which is used, and any reference to a primary or a secondary does not indicate a. limitation to the two coil form. Now 6 is proportional to and practically equal to, fn; that is, the

line voltage is proportional to and practically equal to the back electromotive force.

Then i, is proportional to 'f, neglecting saturation effects, and c is proportional to f0,- that is, there is a definitefield correspondc is the frequency,

From the energy equation for a ill)" that "is, 71 is proportional to terpole' windings by a currentproportional' to the current supplied to the primary of a' transformer, the secondary of which. excites 31 ing to the exciting voltage. which field-depends only on the pei'iocnclty,

Substituting. these values in the formula we-have i is proportional to This means that if the shunt field of a commutator machine be excited by current from the secondary of a transformer, the current which will flow in the primary of the transformer will be directly proportional to the main field and the frequency 'windings by means of interpoles, that such interpoles must be excited by a current i proportional to I Hence, it .follows that if we excite the inthe shunt field of a commutator machine, suchcurrent will vary in magnitude so as to completely compensate for the transformer alction for all possible variations of the applied excitation. From the above consideration it is clear that by this means I obtain .a'current having the desired characteristics for compensating as described, and from'a practical standpoint it is only necessary to give this current the correct phase and value.

As before stated, the phase of the potential setup due to the transformer action is 90 behind that of the flux of the main field. In a single phase machine, this flux is. in phase with the current in thesecondary of the excitingtransformer. The current of the primary is, moreover, 180 degrees displaced from that of the secondary. Hence, in order that a current proportional to that ofthe primary may be used to compensate the transformer action, it will be clear that such current must be shifted through an corresponding interpole winding, and here the correct phase relation for carrying out my invention may be obtained by the combi former-electromotive force forall possible settings of the transformer taps.

In the drawing, Figure 1 shows my invention as applied'to a three-phase shunt excited commutator machine, and in connec tion therewith one means whichI may use for securing the required phase relations is illustrated.- F 2 is a vector diagram showing the phase relations of various quantities, obtained in the operation of the,arrangement shown in Fig. 1.

v In the form shown, the machine a is excited by the field coils 0 ,0 0 fed from the secondary winding 10, of the transformer b, the primary w, of which receives current from the mains m. The armature has its brushes connected directly to the mains m, such' connections including the usual compensating windings 70,, k is, for compensating for armature reactions, as is known in the art. Myinterpole windings b 72,, k, are illustrated as receiving current directly in series with the mains leading ,to the primary of the transformer. In the present instance, I obtain the proper phase relations by connecting the primary of my transforiner in delta, and the secondary in Y, the

three exciting coils 0,, c 0, being connected in delta.

Having previously shown that the transformer electromotive force is quantitativelycorrectly compensated by my invention, it only remains to show'that the correct phase relation may be obtained in a well known of the brushes, the conductors of which lie under the interpole windings k, and 71 The interpole windings 72 71 and h, are here shown as connected in series with the mains leading to the primary of the threephase transformer. The currents in said windings will accordingly have a relative phase displacement of as indicated by the vectors Ih Th and 1k, in Fig. 2. Now,

the fluxes produced by these windings will be in phase with the currents therein. Fur- "ther, the potentials (indicated asEJz, and' 1th,) set up by the rotation of the conductors of the armature coil 0 through the fluxes produced by the interpoles h and h,

will be in phase with the currents Ih and 1b,, and the resultant electromotive force due to the action of the interpoles on this coil will be represented by the vector Ea, inter-pole, which represents the vectorial diffcrence between E72 and Eh Evidently, the line currents on the primary side of the transformer are identical with the currents in the interpole windings, and will be represented by the same vectors. Now, it is well understood that with the delta-star connection of a three-phase transformer, the line current on the secondary side lags 150 behind the line current on the primary side. The vector 1w, will, therefore, represent the secondary current corresponding to the primary line current represented by 1th,. This secondary current will divide into two components each diverging 30 because of the delta connection of the field coils 0,, 0,, 0 The vector 10, will, therefore, correctly indicate the phase relation of the current in the exciting coil 0,. But the flux in this coil will be in phase with the current, and consequently the voltage induced by the transformer action of this flux on the armature coil a, will lag 90 behind. 10, and be represented by Ea, transformer. Evidently, this is' 180 out of phase with "Ea interpole. Consequently, it will be seen that I have shown that the correct phase relation between the interpole current and the main field current may be obtained by this well known arrangement of a delta-star connected transformer in conjunction with the delta connection of the exciting field coils. Since the currents in the interpole and field windings are exciting currents, and hence wattless, this phase relation, once determined, continues for all conditions of oporation.

Although I have herein illustrated and described my invention as applied to a three-phase machine in conjunction with a transformer of the two coil type, I do not desire to be limited to this exact arrangement, but seek to cover in the appended claims all modifications which fall within the scope and spirit of my invention.

claim- 1. In combination, an alternating current commutator machine, a transformer, a

shunt field winding on said machine excited from the secondary of said transformer, and an interpole winding on said machine excited with a current proportional to the current supplied to the primary winding of said transformer.

2. In combination, an alternating current commutator machine,atransformena shunt field winding on said machine excited from the secondary of said transformer, and an intcrpole winding on said machine connected in series with the mains leading to the primary of said transformer.

3. In combination, a dynamo electric machine having commuted winding, a transformer, an exciting winding on said machine connected to the secondary of said trans; former, a compensating winding on said machine in series with said commuted winding, and an interpole winding excited with a current proportional to the current supplied to the primary of said transformer.

4. In combination, a dynamo electric machine having a commuted winding, a transformer, a shunt field winding on said machine excited from the secondary of said transformer, an interpole winding on said machine connected in series with the mains leading to the primary of said transformer, and a compensating winding on said machine in series with said commuted winding.

In combination, a three-phase dynamo electric machine having a commuted winding, a three-phase transformer, the primary windings of which are connected in delta and the secondary windings of which are connected in star, a shunt exciting winding on said machine connected in delta to the secondary of said transformer, main compensating windings on said machine in series with the said commuted winding, and interpole windings on said machine connected in series with the mains leading to the primary of said transformer.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DR. .llEINRlCH MEYER-DELIUS.

lVitnesses CARL GUBLER, AUGUST Rosco. 

